Fruit characterization of Cocos nucifera L. (ARECACEAE) cultivars from thePacific coast of Costa Rica and the Philippines

Citation
A. Vargas et Fa. Blanco, Fruit characterization of Cocos nucifera L. (ARECACEAE) cultivars from thePacific coast of Costa Rica and the Philippines, GEN RESOUR, 47(5), 2000, pp. 483-487
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION
ISSN journal
09259864 → ACNP
Volume
47
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Pages
483 - 487
Database
ISI
SICI code
0925-9864(200010)47:5<483:FCOCNL>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Tall coconut cultivars from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and the Philipp ines (San Ramon, Tagnanan, and Laguna), were evaluated for fruit characteri stics. Most of the introduced cultivars showed extremely large heterogeneit y. A cluster analysis, based on the Ward method, classified the palms into four groups with high internal homogeneity. Some of the evaluated coconut p alms from the Costa Rican Pacific area had nut characteristics similar to t he San Ramon and Tagnanan palm groups but not to the Laguna group. At the a ssociation level used (semipartial R-2 = 0.10), another group which include d the remaining palms sampled from the Costa Rican Pacific coast was consti tuted.